Messenger Puppet

Professional

politicians aren’t famous for being early to embrace new technology. So

when the Democrats extended credentials to bloggers to cover the

party’s national convention in Boston, I was left pleasantly stunned.
With

all the pageantry and the circus-like atmospherics that make up an

American political convention, you couldn’t ask for a better backdrop

to show off blogging’s potential. In full view of the rest of the

journalistic world, here would be the most welcome–albeit

belated–recognition yet by the establishment that the media landscape

is changing before our eyes.
With a few exceptions, most of the credentialed bloggers came off like cyberhayseeds in the big city.
All the more disappointing, then, to report back that blogging blew its big chance in Beantown.
With

a few exceptions, most of the credentialed bloggers came off like

cyberhayseeds in the big city. Many dared for the painfully obvious as

they updated their posts. Most of the blogging entries I have read

ranged from the insufferably pedantic to the sublimely mediocre. There

were exceptions, of course, but the see-me, hear-me tenor of their

reporting was only exceeded by the vapidity of the banal commentaries